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Bruce Arena pulled off an impressive feat of magic last year when he guided an aging, injury-plagued Galaxy to its third Major League Soccer title in four seasons. But that's nothing compared to the trick he performed last week when he turned Landon Donovan into Steven Gerrard. It was a transformation that took four months and a small army of assistants to complete. Yet, it's one that wouldn't have happened without the vision and creativity of Arena, who saw Donovan's surprise retirement announcement in August not as a loss but as an opportunity. And no one capitalizes on opportunities better than Arena, the Galaxy's Hall of Fame coach and general manager. In...

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Bruce Arena pulled off an impressive feat of magic last year when he guided an aging, injury-plagued Galaxy to its third Major League Soccer title in four seasons.
But that's nothing compared to the trick he performed last week when he turned Landon...

The Galaxy's championship on Sunday marked a record fifth Major League Soccer title for Bruce Arena as coach, and it was his third title with the Galaxy. Arena, 63, has had a storied career, including coaching the U.S. team to the quarterfinals in the...

Coach Juergen Klinsmann has called up a primarily young and domestically based roster for the U.S. national soccer team's first training camp of the new year, which is set to begin Monday at StubHub Center.
Nineteen of the 28 players summoned are less...

Three Galaxy players - midfielder Landon Donovan, forward Robbie Keane and defender Omar Gonzalez -- were among those named to the MLS Best XI, Major League Soccer's top 11 players this season, the league said Tuesday.
It was a record seventh time that...

Seven players from defunct Chivas USA were chosen by other Major League Soccer clubs in a dispersal draft Wednesday, the league said.
After being acquired by MLS, struggling Chivas USA was disbanded after this season ended and the league sold the...

The Galaxy still has a lot of work to do if it hopes to win a record fifth Major League Soccer championship. But the team's performance during the regular season is already being rewarded, with four players nominated Thursday for postseason awards.
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The Galaxy's Omar Gonzalez was good enough to start for the U.S. in the World Cup but apparently that doesn't make him the best defender in Major League Soccer.
That award went to Seattle's Chad Marshall on Tuesday.
The Sounders' imposing center back...

It's been a rough year for Galaxy defender A.J. DeLaGarza, who lost his son Luca to a congenital heart defect a week after he was born.
But DeLaGarza managed to turn that tragedy into inspiration, raising money for other families with children affected...

Major League Soccer's playoffs begin with knockout games in each conference between the clubs that finished in fourth and fifth place in the regular season.
In the Western Conference, FC Dallas plays host to the Vancouver Whitecaps on Wednesday. The...

Forget about Landon Donovan and his impending retirement for just a second.
Because while Donovan holds virtually every significant record with both the U.S. national team and in Major League Soccer, he's not the Galaxy player with an autobiographical...

With FIFA's international break falling directly in the middle of the Major League Soccer playoffs, U.S. national team Coach Juergen Klinsmann largely steered clear of postseason participants when selecting the 25 players for U.S. national team friendlies...

Peguy Luyindula scored his second playoff goal in as many games and the New York Red Bulls advanced to the Eastern Conference finals despite a 2-1 loss to D.C. United on Saturday at Washington.
The Red Bulls advanced 3-2 on aggregate after winning the...

The Galaxy said Thursday it will host the second game of the two-game Western Conference semifinals in Major League Soccer's playoffs on Nov. 9.
The Galaxy, which has clinched a playoff berth, said its opponent is yet to be determined because there are...

Landon Donovan will be surrounded by some old friends when he makes the final appearance of his record-setting career with the U.S. national team Friday against Ecuador in East Hartford, Conn. Among the 21 players called in for the game by U.S. Coach...

With the score tied 1-1 in the 75th minute and the Galaxy struggling for another goal against FC Dallas on Saturday night, Galaxy Coach Bruce Arena made a notable substitution.
Arena pulled 23-year-old standout forward Gyasi Zardes, who is tied for the...

Ten of the 23 players selected to the U.S. World Cup team play their club games in Major League Soccer, the league that stands as the legacy of the 1994 tournament, the only World Cup played in this country. So who are the most decorated MLS vets to...

— Ten doesn't go into three very cleanly or easily. But that's the math facing Coach Juergen Klinsmann and the U.S. soccer team less than three weeks before the 23-man World Cup rosters are due.
Klinsmann invited 30 players to training camp, which...

Landon Donovan took a big step toward a record-tying fourth World Cup appearance and Galaxy teammate Omar Gonzalez moved closer to his first when both were included Monday in the 30-man provisional squad U.S. Coach Juergen Klinsmann called into this...

Coach Juergen Klinsmann called up a 22-player roster composed almost entirely of Major League Soccer players for the U.S. national team's April 2 friendly with Mexico in Phoenix.
But the most interesting selection is one of the three non-MLS...

There were few surprises among the 30 players Coach Juergen Klinsmann chose Monday to join the U.S. soccer team at Stanford on Wednesday for its final training camp before next month's World Cup in Brazil.
Among those invited were Galaxy forward Landon...